Understanding Ollie: Ian Holloway's book flits between insight and inanity, but offers fascinating window onto his mind
09.05.25, 15:03 Updated 05.06.25, 20:07 7 Minute Read
Sam Morshead
“I’ve never had a problem talking,” writes Ian Holloway, in a rare example of using very few words to explain his latest thought.
Holloway has a new book out – The Mostly Football World According To Ollie – and, for those who have never had the pleasure, it is as close to an intimate audience with the Swindon Town manager as you are likely to get from ink and paper.
His ghost writer, David Clayton, allows that inimitable West Country lilt to come through in the text. It is impossible to read this book and not hear its nominal author.
And while the subject matter flits between reverence and irrelevance, occasionally veering into the inane, it is very much Holloway’s voice.
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